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JOHAN HALLBERG-CAMPBELL  PHOTOGRAPHER & FILM MAKER

Photographer, Film Maker and Video Editor working on documentary and comercial projects globally. 

Johan Hallberg-Campbell travels to explore communities and what it means to belong. In 2009, while visiting family in Scalpay, a small fishing community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, he saw the declining traditions of his ancestors. His uncle, a lifelong fisherman, spoke of the disappearance of the herring, his “silver darlings,” and the imminent loss of his vocation. It was during that trip he felt a connection to his heritage and began a relationship with the coast. The following year Johan decided to travel on the first of many journeys to investigate Canada’s coastline (his new home), to experience its beauty and its harshness, to experience life where the land meets the sea. 

Johan was born in the Highlands of Scotland and has been living and working in Canada since 2007. Graduating with a BA (Hons) from The Glasgow School of Art in 2002 and specializing in both photography and film. His projects have been published, exhibited and screened internationally. He was a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts award for the on-going project Coastal, which is currently being developed as a longterm body of work. Coastal was exhibited as a Primary Scotiabank Contact Photography solo show at the Harbourfront Centre in 2017, and as a public installation on the grounds of the Harbourfront in Toronto. 

As an image maker he has been commissioned by publications and institutions around the world. Clients include National Geographic, The New York Times, DER SPIEGEL, VQR, NPR, the Canadian Red Cross, Outside Magazine, en Route, The Walrus, The Scots Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail, Report on Business, Macleans, The Grid, Canadian Business, DIE ZEIT and The Guardian, The National Ballet of Canada.